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Topic: THE IMPORTANCE OF HAVING YOUR OWN DOMAIN NAME (Read 16455 times)

Your domain name is imperative to the success of your website, if anyone tells you otherwise they're either lying or don't know what they're talking about.

You need a domain name if you're serious about being an online entity, it's where you'll direct all your potential customers to. For them to become customers you've to make a good first impression and having your own domain name rather than some free wordpress or blogspot address that's long and cumbersome will enable you to do this.

There are lots of other benefits of having your own domain, here's just a few of them.

A domain name is your own unique identity and always will be as long has you continue to use that name. Say for instance you hosted your free site with wordpress and you found that you needed a more advanced host because your website was becoming successful. Visitors and links to your site would know you by the long wordpress URL and you'd have to start promoting your new URL all over again. If you had your own domain name you could change hosts as often as you like and people would still be able to find you simply by typing in your domain name.

You can promote your website instead of someone else's when you're sending emails as your domain name will be in the email address, for example admin@nigerianbestforum.com is helping to promote nigerianbestforum.com while nigerianbestforum@aol.com is helping to promote and brand AOL.com

Your likely to have more traffic to your website with your own domain name because more people will be returning as they can remember your address and because many search directories such as Yahoo only index websites with their own domain name.

Another advantage of having your own domain name is that you can use custom error pages to prevent people from leaving your site because of broken links and other errors.

Domain names are so cheap nowadays that there's no excuse for not having one. Now that your ready to get yourself a domain name here's some pointers to help you choose a good one.Size does matter

In the case of domain names the smaller the better. Of course short domain names are harder to find but if you can find one it has a number of advantages such as, it's easier to brand, easier to remember and it's harder to misspell.

Easy to remember

Try to get a name that's easy to remember and sounds good. General words are best for this but since these are all gone at this stage you should look for non general names or combinations of general names which rhyme and sound good together. Take nigerianbestforum.com for example that's an easy to remember name.

Relate to your business

If you use keywords which are related to your business industry you will help your search engine rankings. What's even better is if you can get your actual business name or a name similar to your company name as your domain name, this way all your off-line branding will pay off online as Internet users should be able to guess your domain name from your business name.

Avoid similarities

This means you should avoid choosing domain names that already have similar counterparts online, if you choose one of these people could end up on your competitors site rather than yours because they got confused over the two domain names.

.com is best

You should always aim for the .com version of a name, that's what most people will go to after doing a search or after typing something directly into their address bar, if you register .tv or .net or any of the other available extensions and your competition has the .com version then you've just lost a potential customer.

Don't build a site for monetization purpose, but for interest, because you will be discourage in time, it take years of investments in time and money to monetize a site.

good tips. That's how we succeed online. Anything without interest will lead to long term failure. . .

This is the reason 98% of entrepreneurs and small businesses who want to get rich quick are unable to even renew their domain/hosting subscription.

God bless you for this tips

The truth is, you don't reap where you never sow, this saying also applies to online income. If you check closely, you will notice that 98% of big sites making it, are over 3 years old, this is not 3 years sitting down doing nothing, but 3 years of continueous investment in time and money.

Don't use all those free domains and hosting like wordpress, blogspot etc.... if you're serious.

Really great post. And you are right- if you have a website just to make money, you'll soon run out of the business because most likely, no money will come initially. It takes interest and love plus the ability to sit in front of a computer for a good number of hours. . .

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I am using the snail style strategy, slow and steady wins the race. Post Merge: May 27, 2010, 03:11:02 PMI have always been using websites along with my free blog. My perception is different now. My present website www. nigeriawebsuccess. com hosting have all the tools that you can ever imagine to run a successful internet marketing. It includes newsletter (+ autoresponder), search engines submission, tracker, domain forwarding (type to www. nigeriaweb-success. com and see what come up), etc.

The present challenge now is that I am still learning to use their tools. In 2 months from now, check my website, check the ranking of my website, check my position on each keyword for my pages in Google, Yahoo, bing and ask. So expect that the website will get better everyday.

I am using the snail style strategy, slow and steady wins the race.

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